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I was under the impression the originator of the comment was attacking resale. I believe that an artist should get paid for original sales of their work. I do not believe they are entitled to additional payments when a resale occurs.

I have no issue with copyrights and I agree that 12 to 24 years is probably a good range. I thought the original poster was attacking resale and my response was geared that way. Artists should get paid for each original copy they sell.

According to the story she somehow accidentally ordered the laptop with Ubuntu. I am not sure how she managed that because I have to *search* Dell's site to find their Linux offerings, but I digress and that is irrelevant anyway.

1) Go to http://www.dell.com/2) Choose "Laptops" under the "For Home" menu3) Choose "Less than $700" under "Price" on the left hand side.4) Click on the first result, "Inspiron Mini 9n"5) Order the cheapest laptop6) Ignore the second line of the specs, "Ubuntu Linux version 8.04.1"

If someone just wanted the cheapest laptop, they could easily order it on accident.

miketheanimal (914328) writes "The Oxford Research Group http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/ have published a report arguing that Nuclear Power is incapable of providing anything like enough generating capacity to have any useful effect on greenhouse emissions. In their report http://www.oxfordresearchgroup.org.uk/publications /briefing_papers/toohottothandle.php they argue that there is no way that the nuclear industry can build anywhere near the number of reactors needed; that even if they could then the global supply of suitable Uranium is limited to around 25 years, at which point it would be necessary to build Plutonium producing breeder reactors; and that most of the expected 50% increase in electricity needed over the next half-century is in the developing world (ie., in countries you might not want to have nuclear reactors).

What do SlashDoters think? Realism in the face of a nuclear whitewash? Green propaganda from the environmentalists? Global warming is a load of rubbish so it doesn't matter a jot?"